20.11.24 / 17:15h / Agora
Our built environment is the physical stage on which all human stories are lived out. This physical stage is the historical and ongoing manifestation of human imagination operating within real (or, imaginary!) constraints. Architectural imagination must transcend design and enter the realms of materials science and economics where some of the bigger questions reside. Through extensive material research and experimentation we rethink materiality and critically examine the way the time value of money has nudged us towards code-based design and the industrialized production of building components and instead look at consumption of finite natural resources alongside their impact on human wellbeing and human resourcefulness. The act of building produces knowledge just as the resulting knowledge produces buildings.
